Software Engineer II

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with operational intelligence, site reliability engineering (SRE), production operations, or service engineering.
• Experience building deployment pipelines, release orchestration systems, rollout automation, deployment health monitoring, or service validation frameworks.
• Experience with service APIs, data-processing systems, event-driven architectures, or reusable infrastructure components.
• Experience applying AI-assisted engineering tools, agents, or intelligent automation to coding, testing, incident investigation, or operational workflows.
• Experience with search technologies, information retrieval, vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or AI-powered applications.
• Ability to reason about distributed services and troubleshoot across application, compute, network, storage, caching, messaging, and load-balancing layers.
• Experience engaging with customers or support teams to understand scenarios and resolve service issues.
• Commitment to security, privacy, accessibility, responsible AI, and customer-focused engineering.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form . Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
• This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
• Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.